...at least that's what I've heard. Windows will have a new filesystem within the next few years that's very similar to the Be filesystem, sort of like a database to speed up searches, and with journaling, etc. I've heard that it was, in fact, Be-inspired.
Installshield works on Windows, Linux, Mac, whatever, because it's written in Java. You can configure it to do whatever you want, including run whatever command or shell script you choose. However, there's no incentive to use it for Linux when rpm or apt work just fine. If you're interested in trying it, there's nothing stopping you except the $999 developer license.
The problem is not that there are no replacements for Outlook-type clients -- there are tons of those -- but that there's no replacement for Exchange Server. There are many analagous Linux solutions that may actually be better, but there's still no drop-in, Exchange-compatible replacement. If these companies want to make headway, they ought to forget about these stupid, token "partnerships," and put some developers on a true, Exchange Server replacement.
Partnering with a childfree female is a decent option - you get to split living costs, and there's a high probability that she, like you, will be cash flow positive. That'll put both of you on track to early retirement sooner than either of you could have hacked it by yourselves.
This is true. Most of my friends really didn't start getting ahead until they got married. The reason is two incomes, and one set of living expenses. It was only then that they were able to save enough for a downpayment on a house, etc. These are professionals, too, people with good educations and good jobs, who are generally frugal and not flashy.
If you have to pay for your own education and deal with the cost of living in a major city, it's likely that even with a good job (lawyer, engineer, etc.), you won't be able to buy a house until your mid to late 30s. And even that is with working your ass off, making some smart investments, and wheeling and dealing a little. The people who really make out are the ones who manage to buy a house in a neighborhood that magically improves, and they double their money in 5 years or so. Real estate appreciation is still how most people get ahead in America.
The fact is that most young people (35) who are living a flashier lifestyle are are still subsidized by parental wealth in some way. They either got their educations paid for so they have no college debt, they got money to put into their houses, or, they spend themselves silly because they know, in the back of their minds, that an inheritance will ultimately save their sorry broke ass when they're 50 or 60. Usually it's all three of these things. I know plenty of people living this way too.
That rural areas are still way lacking in broadband access goes without saying.
However, their cable TV service usually sucks, too. People are getting reamed like you wouldn't believe. Prices *are not* any lower than in the big cities. They're about the same, for about a third to half as much stuff. So it's really a lot more expensive for what you do get.
The biggest problem is that you don't get a full, 24hr feed of most of the channels. Things like CNBC, USA, and even the regular on-air "big 4" networks are only on during prime time, then switch to infomercials and religious crap the rest of the time. The local cable company makes more money this way. The upshot is that you don't actually get half the stuff you got cable for to begin with.
Furthermore, that fifty bucks a month for basic-plus service (everything but premium movie channels) is a much bigger portion of the household budget in places where $8/hr is considered good job.
Finally, these places have virtually *no* public access programming, which can be a vital community resource.
I can't stress this enough. Airlines are pushing people to sign up for electronic ticketing -- it sounds reasonable to most people as a way to reduce costs, by not having to check you in, etc. However, the real reason airlines are pushing these is that they're actually a different class of ticket. The contract is different. If you read it carefully, you'll see that it's inferior to a regular paper ticket. The biggest difference is that usually, you have a lower priority. If the plane is full, or if they just happen to have more customers come along willing to pay full pop, they have the right to bump you. You may be making other concessions too -- like if your luggage is late or lost, they won't deliver it to you -- you'll have to come pick it up. Electronic tickets are a scam. Don't buy them, and if you do, read the fine print carefully. Definately don't buy them if you absolutely have to be somewhere on time.
"The business of America *is* business..."
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Calvin Coolidge said that. It sounds trite, but nothing could be truer. Learn it. Live it. Or be left behind.
Gee, who woulda thunk -- an insidious piece of spyware coming from the world capital of sleaze -- the San Fernando Valley -- and incorporated in NV to avoid taxes. Sounds like a porn affiliate to me. Gee, I wonder if it has popups to offshore net gambling sites...
At Pomona and Harvard at least, it goes without saying that the students *are* above average. A friend of mine sat in a class at Pomona where the instructor asked how many were valedictorians at their high school. 90% of the class raised their hands.
People of this caliber generally do good work most of the time. There's no reason to artificially classify it as average. There's no benefit to grading on a strict bell curve -- these are usually "A" caliber students, doing "A" and "B" caliber work all the time.
Look at it this way -- most good grad schools have a matriculation requirement of B+. Who do you really think would be a better candidate for any grad school -- an "A" student from San Diego State, or a "B-" student from MIT?
And that's also the way it should be. After all, this isn't a tape/DVD that you'll be watching once or twice this weekend and taking back. You'll be watching this thing maybe once a month for the next ten years, and losing lots of time watching the crummy previews (likely for movies that you also bought later on). That's just unacceptable.
Skippable or not, ads at the *front* of a DVD are an affront to the purchasing public. Sure, put those ads in, but do it in the same manner you might put in the bonus features, in a menu option. Why is this so hard for the movie moguls to do?
Because "moguls" usually don't have anything to do with how DVDs are put together or marketed. It's usually done by subsidiaries or contractors, who are usually boneheaded scum -- not exactly Ivy League marketing MBAs, or MIT MediaLab veterans. Before they got into big time Hollywood DVD distribution, they were probably creating popups for porn websites.
Stupid, sophomoric geek blathering...
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This is like every other witless, pointless geek conversation. It usually starts with something like, "Such-and-such isn't so great. It's really just a something-or-other with a blahblah added on." Crap like this seems to pass for wisdom among these blathering bores/boors. They prattle on like this, thinking it makes them sound smart. This is why I gave up engineering as a career. I'd go raving mad if I had to listen to this everyday.
To keep governments honest in delivering value to their constituents, states should be forced to compete in offering low cost of doing business. If taxes climb too high, then the goverment isn't doing it's job well, businesses leave, the economy suffers, and the people vote the government out of office. This is the best mechanism we have for keeping governments accountable to the people -- just as companies have to offer value to their customers, and to their shareholders.
Taxing across state borders is unjust and just plain stupid. We have enough barriers to trade around the world. Let's not start *within* our own country.
Eclipse does have a few glitches in the Linux version.
For those that don't know, Eclipse is based on a unique IBM GUI toolkit called SWT. It has a Java API, but the underlying code is native. The supposed advantage of this is that it can be used by any Java programmer as an alternative to Swing, but it's faster. The problem is that it's only available for Windows and Linux, and since the underlying code is native, it has to be separately developed and maintained. Since more GUI apps are run on Windows, there's more pressure to make the Windows code work right, and the Linux code is always a little behind.
I don't think there's any advantage to SWT these days, with Swing programming coming along so well. For anyone who doubts this, have a look at IntelliJ Idea, a really nice Java IDE that's Swing-based, and super fast. Frankly, I think Eclipse and SWT was a move to establish an IBM-centric Java community, with lots of vendor lock-in. Hijacking Java from Sun, if you will.
Eclipse *is* a really nice application, but I don't think IBM's motives in creating it were at all community-minded. And I don't have high regard, or high hopes, for SWT.
I wonder which is actually cheaper to make, this or flash memory. We can get CF cards of at least 1GB now, maybe 2GB. The new Fuji/Olympus flash format (XD?) will supposedly surpass CF. It seems to me that flash memory, with no moving parts, etc., would be cheaper to make, not to mention more robust, and faster. So I wonder what this thing is really all about -- DRM, maybe? Big profits from selling the little reader things?
"Eventually as the phone number system fills up because of more people having cellphones/pager/fax and a home/office phone line..."
The problem is not too many phones. As others have pointed out, phone numbers are sold to phone, pager, wireless, and other providers in blocks of 10,000. But the real problem is not that these numbers are being used, or reserved. It's that they're never returned, whether they're ever used or not.
The reason is, these companies' bread and butter is the fact that they own your phone number. Wanting to keep the same phone number is the main thing preventing most people from switching to a better/cheaper provider. Heaven forbid these companies should be forced to compete with better service and lower prices!
I think they should. I've been active on this issue for awhile, like 15 years. Write your congressman.
The price of the device didn't help its case either. Being a liberal city, a $4000 device is seen as a rich man's toy and rich men should be spending their money on social problems such as the homeless problem, not toys. This viewpoint is pretty common here unfortunately.
Yeah, no kidding. Frankly, I think that's the heart of the matter. The rest is just political rhetoric.
I'm no fan of the Segway. I think it's pretty stupid, and will never be anything more than a toy. But when I read about it being banned in San Francisco, one thought came to my mind -- "typical!"
Personally, I hate all the little punk speed freaks begging for money all over the city. But I don't propose banning skateboards, which I'm sure pose a greater threat to pedestrians.
Because people like Lee Abrams and his ilk are still in charge, we've been stuck in the 70s for thirty years. In the 80s we tried gallantly to make the 70s go away, with punk, "death to disco," disdain for anyone with long hair, or that listened to overproduced "progressive rock."
Well, it looks like we've lost the battle, and from about the late 80s onward, the 70s have been back, with Big Media constantly regurgitating and re-selling them to us. I'm beginning to think the 70s has become the permanent lowest common denominator of American culture. Yuck.
It's open source, isn't it? At least as far as I can tell -- the only things that aren't free/OSS are the third party apps included with the pay-for product. The basic distribution, and the neat Mandrake installer and admin tools that make Mandrake Mandrake are all free/OSS. Correct me if I'm wrong...
Don't believe everything you read. I'm a Java programmer, and in my experience this kind of thing is *freakishly* rare. JVMs are backward compatible, except for the odd bug or two, unless some kind of weird Microsoft extension has been used (which is also pretty rare).
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...at least that's what I've heard. Windows will have a new filesystem within the next few years that's very similar to the Be filesystem, sort of like a database to speed up searches, and with journaling, etc. I've heard that it was, in fact, Be-inspired.
I don't care if this is all just a union ploy, or whatever else people are saying. If it saves us from the shitty radio we have now, it's OK by me.
Installshield works on Windows, Linux, Mac, whatever, because it's written in Java. You can configure it to do whatever you want, including run whatever command or shell script you choose. However, there's no incentive to use it for Linux when rpm or apt work just fine. If you're interested in trying it, there's nothing stopping you except the $999 developer license.
The problem is not that there are no replacements for Outlook-type clients -- there are tons of those -- but that there's no replacement for Exchange Server. There are many analagous Linux solutions that may actually be better, but there's still no drop-in, Exchange-compatible replacement. If these companies want to make headway, they ought to forget about these stupid, token "partnerships," and put some developers on a true, Exchange Server replacement.
Partnering with a childfree female is a decent option - you get to split living costs, and there's a high probability that she, like you, will be cash flow positive. That'll put both of you on track to early retirement sooner than either of you could have hacked it by yourselves.
This is true. Most of my friends really didn't start getting ahead until they got married. The reason is two incomes, and one set of living expenses. It was only then that they were able to save enough for a downpayment on a house, etc. These are professionals, too, people with good educations and good jobs, who are generally frugal and not flashy.
If you have to pay for your own education and deal with the cost of living in a major city, it's likely that even with a good job (lawyer, engineer, etc.), you won't be able to buy a house until your mid to late 30s. And even that is with working your ass off, making some smart investments, and wheeling and dealing a little. The people who really make out are the ones who manage to buy a house in a neighborhood that magically improves, and they double their money in 5 years or so. Real estate appreciation is still how most people get ahead in America.
The fact is that most young people (35) who are living a flashier lifestyle are are still subsidized by parental wealth in some way. They either got their educations paid for so they have no college debt, they got money to put into their houses, or, they spend themselves silly because they know, in the back of their minds, that an inheritance will ultimately save their sorry broke ass when they're 50 or 60. Usually it's all three of these things. I know plenty of people living this way too.
That rural areas are still way lacking in broadband access goes without saying.
However, their cable TV service usually sucks, too. People are getting reamed like you wouldn't believe. Prices *are not* any lower than in the big cities. They're about the same, for about a third to half as much stuff. So it's really a lot more expensive for what you do get.
The biggest problem is that you don't get a full, 24hr feed of most of the channels. Things like CNBC, USA, and even the regular on-air "big 4" networks are only on during prime time, then switch to infomercials and religious crap the rest of the time. The local cable company makes more money this way. The upshot is that you don't actually get half the stuff you got cable for to begin with.
Furthermore, that fifty bucks a month for basic-plus service (everything but premium movie channels) is a much bigger portion of the household budget in places where $8/hr is considered good job.
Finally, these places have virtually *no* public access programming, which can be a vital community resource.
That's what they hope you believe. Read the contract. It's different.
I can't stress this enough. Airlines are pushing people to sign up for electronic ticketing -- it sounds reasonable to most people as a way to reduce costs, by not having to check you in, etc. However, the real reason airlines are pushing these is that they're actually a different class of ticket. The contract is different. If you read it carefully, you'll see that it's inferior to a regular paper ticket. The biggest difference is that usually, you have a lower priority. If the plane is full, or if they just happen to have more customers come along willing to pay full pop, they have the right to bump you. You may be making other concessions too -- like if your luggage is late or lost, they won't deliver it to you -- you'll have to come pick it up. Electronic tickets are a scam. Don't buy them, and if you do, read the fine print carefully. Definately don't buy them if you absolutely have to be somewhere on time.
Calvin Coolidge said that. It sounds trite, but nothing could be truer. Learn it. Live it. Or be left behind.
Gee, who woulda thunk -- an insidious piece of spyware coming from the world capital of sleaze -- the San Fernando Valley -- and incorporated in NV to avoid taxes. Sounds like a porn affiliate to me. Gee, I wonder if it has popups to offshore net gambling sites...
At Pomona and Harvard at least, it goes without saying that the students *are* above average. A friend of mine sat in a class at Pomona where the instructor asked how many were valedictorians at their high school. 90% of the class raised their hands.
People of this caliber generally do good work most of the time. There's no reason to artificially classify it as average. There's no benefit to grading on a strict bell curve -- these are usually "A" caliber students, doing "A" and "B" caliber work all the time.
Look at it this way -- most good grad schools have a matriculation requirement of B+. Who do you really think would be a better candidate for any grad school -- an "A" student from San Diego State, or a "B-" student from MIT?
And that's also the way it should be. After all, this isn't a tape/DVD that you'll be watching once or twice this weekend and taking back. You'll be watching this thing maybe once a month for the next ten years, and losing lots of time watching the crummy previews (likely for movies that you also bought later on). That's just unacceptable.
Skippable or not, ads at the *front* of a DVD are an affront to the purchasing public. Sure, put those ads in, but do it in the same manner you might put in the bonus features, in a menu option. Why is this so hard for the movie moguls to do?
Because "moguls" usually don't have anything to do with how DVDs are put together or marketed. It's usually done by subsidiaries or contractors, who are usually boneheaded scum -- not exactly Ivy League marketing MBAs, or MIT MediaLab veterans. Before they got into big time Hollywood DVD distribution, they were probably creating popups for porn websites.
...that we have DVD.
This is like every other witless, pointless geek conversation. It usually starts with something like, "Such-and-such isn't so great. It's really just a something-or-other with a blahblah added on." Crap like this seems to pass for wisdom among these blathering bores/boors. They prattle on like this, thinking it makes them sound smart. This is why I gave up engineering as a career. I'd go raving mad if I had to listen to this everyday.
To keep governments honest in delivering value to their constituents, states should be forced to compete in offering low cost of doing business. If taxes climb too high, then the goverment isn't doing it's job well, businesses leave, the economy suffers, and the people vote the government out of office. This is the best mechanism we have for keeping governments accountable to the people -- just as companies have to offer value to their customers, and to their shareholders.
Taxing across state borders is unjust and just plain stupid. We have enough barriers to trade around the world. Let's not start *within* our own country.
...their website is all ASP.
Eclipse does have a few glitches in the Linux version.
For those that don't know, Eclipse is based on a unique IBM GUI toolkit called SWT. It has a Java API, but the underlying code is native. The supposed advantage of this is that it can be used by any Java programmer as an alternative to Swing, but it's faster. The problem is that it's only available for Windows and Linux, and since the underlying code is native, it has to be separately developed and maintained. Since more GUI apps are run on Windows, there's more pressure to make the Windows code work right, and the Linux code is always a little behind.
I don't think there's any advantage to SWT these days, with Swing programming coming along so well. For anyone who doubts this, have a look at IntelliJ Idea, a really nice Java IDE that's Swing-based, and super fast. Frankly, I think Eclipse and SWT was a move to establish an IBM-centric Java community, with lots of vendor lock-in. Hijacking Java from Sun, if you will.
Eclipse *is* a really nice application, but I don't think IBM's motives in creating it were at all community-minded. And I don't have high regard, or high hopes, for SWT.
They'd better watch out, or we'll send a bunch of blokes from Boston who will throw all their tea into the harbor!
I wonder which is actually cheaper to make, this or flash memory. We can get CF cards of at least 1GB now, maybe 2GB. The new Fuji/Olympus flash format (XD?) will supposedly surpass CF. It seems to me that flash memory, with no moving parts, etc., would be cheaper to make, not to mention more robust, and faster. So I wonder what this thing is really all about -- DRM, maybe? Big profits from selling the little reader things?
"Eventually as the phone number system fills up because of more people having cellphones/pager/fax and a home/office phone line..."
The problem is not too many phones. As others have pointed out, phone numbers are sold to phone, pager, wireless, and other providers in blocks of 10,000. But the real problem is not that these numbers are being used, or reserved. It's that they're never returned, whether they're ever used or not.
The reason is, these companies' bread and butter is the fact that they own your phone number. Wanting to keep the same phone number is the main thing preventing most people from switching to a better/cheaper provider. Heaven forbid these companies should be forced to compete with better service and lower prices!
I think they should. I've been active on this issue for awhile, like 15 years. Write your congressman.
Yeah, no kidding. Frankly, I think that's the heart of the matter. The rest is just political rhetoric.
I'm no fan of the Segway. I think it's pretty stupid, and will never be anything more than a toy. But when I read about it being banned in San Francisco, one thought came to my mind -- "typical!"
Personally, I hate all the little punk speed freaks begging for money all over the city. But I don't propose banning skateboards, which I'm sure pose a greater threat to pedestrians.
...imagine that...
Because people like Lee Abrams and his ilk are still in charge, we've been stuck in the 70s for thirty years. In the 80s we tried gallantly to make the 70s go away, with punk, "death to disco," disdain for anyone with long hair, or that listened to overproduced "progressive rock."
Well, it looks like we've lost the battle, and from about the late 80s onward, the 70s have been back, with Big Media constantly regurgitating and re-selling them to us. I'm beginning to think the 70s has become the permanent lowest common denominator of American culture. Yuck.
It's open source, isn't it? At least as far as I can tell -- the only things that aren't free/OSS are the third party apps included with the pay-for product. The basic distribution, and the neat Mandrake installer and admin tools that make Mandrake Mandrake are all free/OSS. Correct me if I'm wrong...
Don't believe everything you read. I'm a Java programmer, and in my experience this kind of thing is *freakishly* rare. JVMs are backward compatible, except for the odd bug or two, unless some kind of weird Microsoft extension has been used (which is also pretty rare).